[Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

[Tom Hayward]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:10, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Note that you may experience some odd zooming as you use the new OSM
> mapping, due to the way it's matching the Xastir zoom levels to the
> available map levels.  This will hopefully be fixed in the near future.
>
> I just experienced it while trying to zoom in using the mouse
> zoom-box feature to my property out in the hills.  It ended up quite
> a distance away from my target.

I noticed this. I also notice, viewing the Puget Sound region, that
there is some sort of projection issue. After zooming out it shows me
in the water! Hmm... it appears intermittent. Zooming out and back in
fixed it. Is this a known issue?

It also seems really slow (about as slow as Tigermaps!). Is any
caching being done? (I don't have normal Xastir map caching support
installed at this time) Where does the big map come from--is it
assembled from cached tiles by xastir, or is it rendered by a server
somewhere?

Tom KD7LXL